Because it’s a meaningless question to ask what happens to the original’s subjective experience after the copies are made. There is no flame or spirit that probabilistically shifts from you to one copy or the other. It’s not that you have a 50% chance of being copy A and a 50% chance of being copy B. It’s that both copies are you, and each of them will view themselves as your continuation. Your subjective experience will split and continue into both.
The interesting question is how to value what happens to the copies. I can’t quite bring myself to allow one copy to be tortured for −1000 utiles and have the other rewarded for +1001, even though, if we value them evenly, this is a gain of 0.5 utiles. I’m not sure if this is a cognitive bias or not.
The interesting question is how to value what happens to the copies.
On what basis you restrict your evaluation to those two particular copies? The universe is huge. And it doesn’t matter when copy exists (as we agreed earlier). There can be any number of Boltzmann brains, which continue your current subjective experience.
Edit: You can’t evaluate anything if you can’t anticipate what happens next or if you anticipate that everything that can happen will happen to you.
Not sure I understand exactly. We don’t know if the universe is Huge, or just how Huge it is. If Tegmark’s hypothesis is correct the only universes that exist may be ones that correspond to certain mathematical structures, and these structures may be ones with specific physical regularities that make Boltzmann brains extremely unlikely.
We don’t seem to notice any Boltzmann-brain-like activity, which may be evidence that they are very rare.
Here is relevant post. And if Tegmark’s hypothesis are true, than you don’t need Boltzmann brains. There are infinitely many continuations of subjective experience, as there are infinitely many universes which have same physical laws as our universe, but distinct initial conditions. For example there is universe with initial conditions identical to current state of our universe, but the color of your room’s wallpaper.
Because it’s a meaningless question to ask what happens to the original’s subjective experience after the copies are made. There is no flame or spirit that probabilistically shifts from you to one copy or the other. It’s not that you have a 50% chance of being copy A and a 50% chance of being copy B. It’s that both copies are you, and each of them will view themselves as your continuation. Your subjective experience will split and continue into both.
The interesting question is how to value what happens to the copies. I can’t quite bring myself to allow one copy to be tortured for −1000 utiles and have the other rewarded for +1001, even though, if we value them evenly, this is a gain of 0.5 utiles. I’m not sure if this is a cognitive bias or not.
On what basis you restrict your evaluation to those two particular copies? The universe is huge. And it doesn’t matter when copy exists (as we agreed earlier). There can be any number of Boltzmann brains, which continue your current subjective experience.
Edit: You can’t evaluate anything if you can’t anticipate what happens next or if you anticipate that everything that can happen will happen to you.
Not sure I understand exactly. We don’t know if the universe is Huge, or just how Huge it is. If Tegmark’s hypothesis is correct the only universes that exist may be ones that correspond to certain mathematical structures, and these structures may be ones with specific physical regularities that make Boltzmann brains extremely unlikely.
We don’t seem to notice any Boltzmann-brain-like activity, which may be evidence that they are very rare.
Here is relevant post. And if Tegmark’s hypothesis are true, than you don’t need Boltzmann brains. There are infinitely many continuations of subjective experience, as there are infinitely many universes which have same physical laws as our universe, but distinct initial conditions. For example there is universe with initial conditions identical to current state of our universe, but the color of your room’s wallpaper.
Edit: spelling.